Candlebox Credit: Phil DeSimone
Creative Loafing Tampa Bay adverts from 1996 feature shows by Candlebox which is still on the road nearly 30 years later, this time promoting Wolves, its first album since 2016. Standing room tickets are still available at Tampa’s Hard Rock Event Center where the band plays next Thursday, May 19.

This article appears in May 5-11, 2022.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...